SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING / CONTRACT R&D
Hands-on support
for your R&D team.
We work alongside your engineers and scientists to troubleshoot experiments, develop measurements, and improve lab workflows.
Using your facilities and equipment, we investigate problems, test changes, and help your team put improvements into practice.
Optics & Photonics
Measurement & Automation
Modeling & Analysis
When to bring us in
A force multiplier for the team and equipment you already have.
Your results are inconsistent
We investigate sources of noise, drift, and variability, then test changes to the measurement setup or analysis.
You need a measurement you cannot make yet.
We help develop a measurement approach, identify equipment requirements, and integrate it into your lab.
Manual steps are slowing the work down.
We connect instrument control, data collection, and analysis to make measurements more repeatable and easier for your team to run.
You need to decide what to try next.
We use targeted tests, optical modeling, and data analysis to evaluate assumptions and guide the next step.
Selected experience
Examples from our research and prototyping work.
01 /
Developing a measurement method
Infrared polarimetry
Developed a spectroscopic method to measure changes in infrared polarization, then checked it against a separate polarimetry experiment.
02 /
Measuring fast optical changes
Ultrafast characterization
Designed infrared experiments to measure how a material’s reflectivity changed after ultrashort laser pulses and how quickly it recovered.
03 /
Checking designs with simulation
Photonic waveguides
Built COMSOL models, compared geometries, and examined how light moved through waveguides with sharp bends. Checked the modeling approach against published designs
The people behind Paluxy
Zach Brown, PhD
Experimental physicist with experience developing and troubleshooting systems that combine optics, electronics, and custom measurement techniques.
Madeline Brown, PhD
Electrical engineer combining optical experiments, automation, and electromagnetic modeling to investigate technical problems and develop repeatable measurements.
Tell us what needs to work next.
Describe your current setup, the result you need, and what you have already tried. Include any upcoming deadline or milestone so we can discuss a useful starting scope.
Serving Houston, Austin, and Dallas–Fort Worth, with on-site and remote support.